The Boyfriend Swap - Softcover

Schorr, Meredith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1635112710 ISBN 13: 9781635112719

Publisher: Henery Press, 2017

Synopsis

If you love Christmas movies, as in you check the Hallmark Channel guide starting in July, then hang on to your stockings, because here comes the merriest of indulgences. It’s “The Proposal” meets “The Holiday” in print.

First meet Robyn Lane. She’s always dated struggling creative types, including her current squeeze (Perry, an actor). For this year’s Chrismukkah celebration, her parents would love her to bring someone stable, reliable, steadily employed. You know, with health insurance and a 401(k).

Now let’s meet Sidney Bellows. Her parents already plan her professional life (she’s an attorney at her father’s law firm). If she brings her current boyfriend (Will, an attorney) to the family Christmas extravaganza, her parents will have their wedding planned by New Year’s Eve.

Leave it to a mutual friend (and copious amounts of wine) to find a playful solution: Swap those boyfriends, fool the parents, and enjoy the holidays. It’s perfect! Robyn can show off a successful attorney boyfriend, and Sidney’s high-society family won’t ring those wedding bells when they meet a flaky actor beau.

The fun isn’t in the theory, it’s in the practice.

Will turns out to be the boy-next-door Robyn crushed on hard throughout her teenage years. Sidney’s family fawns all over Perry like he’s an Oscar-winner rather than a D-list wannabe.

Fool the parents? Enjoy the holidays? Swapping boyfriends never sounded so good or went so bad. Take time to read this one. It’s like Christmas in July.

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THE BOYFRIEND SWAP by Meredith Schorr | A Henery Press book

About this title

About the Author

A born-and-bred New Yorker, Meredith Schorr discovered her passion for writing when she began to enjoy drafting work-related emails way more than she was probably supposed to. After trying her hand penning children’s stories and blogging her personal experiences, Meredith found her calling writing chick lit and humorous women’s fiction. She secures much inspiration from her day job as a hardworking trademark paralegal and her still-single (but looking) status. Meredith is a loyal New York Yankees fan, an avid runner, and an unashamed television addict.

Review

"Schorr (A State of Jane) mixes and matches couples with charming aplomb in this sweet-natured romcom. Controlling, occasionally selfish attorney Sidney Bellows and cute-as-a-button, innocent elementary school music teacher Robyn Lane are tired of being judged by their families for their choices in boyfriends. They make an ill-advised drunken deal at a wine party: Sidney will take Robyn's offbeat, laid-back actor boyfriend, Perry Smith, to her wealthy parents' home in Scarsdale, N.Y., for Christmas, and Robyn will head back to Bala Cynwyd, Pa., with Sidney's serious lawyer boyfriend, Will, for the holidays. Things get complicated when Robyn finally meets Will and realizes he is Will Brady, her teenage crush and former next-door neighbor--and even more so when Robyn admits to herself that she's still head-over-heels for him. Despite a far-fetched plot device, the author manages to easily reel readers in from the start, especially with quintessential girl-next-door Robyn and chivalrous lawyer Will. (Sidney and Perry are a slightly harder sell.) Pieces of the puzzle are thoroughly and appealingly mixed up in this well-paced tale, and younger readers and fans of sweet romance will appreciate that the action on the page is limited to innocent kissing." Publishers Weekly
"With a premise that rivals the best film rom-coms, The Boyfriend Swap is filled with romance, humor and heart -- a delight from beginning to end. Meredith Schorr delivers chick lit gold!" -- Jamie Brenner, USA Today bestselling author of The Forever Summer
 
"Schorr begins with a wonderful premise: two women swap boyfriends--the type of guys they think will keep their ever-inquisitive parents at bay while everyone is home for the holidays. Then, with each scene, Schorr ramps up the stakes for everything to go wrong--which it does with hilarious consequences. But the way in which Schorr handles both heroines' soul-searching journeys to self-fulfillment--with or without Mr. Right at her side--is why I flat-out loved this book. Trust me, you will too." -- Josie Brown, author of Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives
 
"Fast-paced and fun. I loved this charming story." -- Michele Gorman, USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author
 
"Meredith Schorr has created a whimsical,starry-eyed holiday tale--a merry little romp about second chances and unexpected connections." -- Phoebe Fox, author of the Breakup Doctor series
"A sweet and sexy book that will make you smile and not stop reading until you find out how all the characters end up. It's a charming story about truly finding your perfect match in love, life, and work." -- Susie Orman Schnall, author of The Balance Project  
"Friends swap shoes, purses and gossip. Why not boyfriends? Warm, witty and winning, The Boyfriend Swap is wonderful entertainment you'll want to share with your best friend." -- Karin Gillespie, author of Divinely Yours

About this edition

• Publisher: Henery Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1635112710
• ISBN 13: 9781635112719
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282